The Best Wooden Toys For Children
Few parents want their homes filled with plastic toys, so we’ve rounded up the most charming wooden toys that your little ones will love, from traditional doll houses, our inner 6-year-olds are losing it over to car sets that will have them captivated for hours… hopefully.
With Christmas around the corner, time is of the essence to make plans with Father Christmas and wooden toys are a great way to tick off bigger ticket items but ones that you’ll be pleased to display in your home too. Top of the wish list for many little ones is probably a wooden toy kitchen – we’ve found the chicest on the market – as well as smaller buys that will ignite their imagination, from mini me makeup sets made of wood that should minimise any future blusher-on-the-carpet moments (we can’t promise) to wooden pretend coffee machines so you little barista can imitate your need for morning coffee but without the caffeine.
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Wooden Toys For Imaginative Play
Wooden Toy Theatre
£69.99
Zara Home
Children thrive off playing with imaginative toys, whether that’s pretending to be the next Bake Off star with Le Toy Van’s sweet cake mixer set or finding their first foray into treading the boards with Zara’s charming pop-up wooden theatre.
In fact, it’s worth checking out Zara for their relatively new range of children’s wooden toys – they are beautifully designed in colour palettes that won’t make you wince and are relatively well-priced.
We are also huge fans of Great Little Trading Company – there isn’t a wooden toy they don’t do – and we’re particularly taken with their adorable play shop and café set to get mini entrepreneurs inspired and ambitious.
Zara’s wooden toys are beautifully designed in colour palettes that won’t make you wince and are relatively well-priced.
Wooden Toy Cars
Candylab’s wooden cars are by far the coolest on the market. Little ones will have hours of fun playing with this durable taco truck, and it will add some colourful character to their bedrooms too.
Candylab Taco Truck
£17
Not Another Bill
Wooden Doll Houses
The Barbie Dreamhouse may have had its moment in the spotlight this summer, but do you really want one taking up space in your home? We’ve found some more aesthetically pleasing doll houses to spoil little ones with… without a piece of plastic in sight.
Plan Toys’ Victorian dolls house is our top pick – beautifully crafted from natural and organic recycled rubber wood; it’s a sustainable and safe choice for little ones. Leave it stripped back and fill the rooms inside with dinky dolls and shrunken furniture, or do your own DIY project and order some Farrow & Ball paint colour tester pots (they’re only £2.50 each) and create a bespoke, heartfelt Christmas present that will become a family heirloom.
Push & Pull Along Wooden Toys
Whether they are taking their first toddles or are zooming around the coffee table whilst your heart is in your mouth, children love a toy that gets them on the move.
There are so many cute styles around right now, from Little Dutch’s VW campervan walker – ideal for little surfer dudes – to Kids Concept’s play vacuum cleaner that sucks up the little wooden discs it comes with – shame it doesn’t actually do the hoovering.
And finally, Great Little Trading Company have a wealth of clever children’s storage ideas. Their pull-along book carts come with adorable animal faces and will hopefully spur a lifelong love of books.
Little Dutch Vintage Campervan Walker Wagon
£47.99
All Mamas Children
Wooden Toy Kitchens
It’s slightly depressing when the kid’s kitchen is nicer than your actual kitchen, but here we are. If you want to inspire your little ones to get creative with food or encourage them to keep on top of the washing up, check out John Lewis for a chic navy design – it’s giving Hague Blue; Zara’s retro style, complete with café curtain (très chic); and Tildo’s pastel blue if you want a splash of kitchen colour.
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